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On 5/20/2010 7:05 AM, Larry Ducie wrote:
... I can only
think that the ability to code a variable with a name 4096 bytes long
is a case of Barbara et al showing off in a grand fashion, more than
out of any kind of necessity on the developer's part. A slight but
welcome over-compensation methinks - the compiler team equivalent of
buying a sports car at 40. ;-)
Bzzt - that one wasn't mine. If I recall correctly, there was some
external requirement for 4096-long names, maybe for a program generator
that was generating procedures with long names. I think the requirement
disappeared, but RPG got long names out of it.
I'd say the real-world equivalent of names 4096 bytes long is buying a
passenger train with the intention of putting in the garage and driving
it in the neighbourhood and on the highway.
I bet that the _only_ programs in existance that use 4096 names for RPG
are testcases in the RPG compiler regression bucket.
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